Falls of Shin Visitor Centre

Falls of Shin Visitor Centre is a tourism office in Highland Council, Scotland. Falls of Shin Visitor Centre is situated nearby to the forest Achany Wood, as well as near the hamlet Inveran.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Falls of Shin and Carbisdale Castle.

Falls of Shin

Waterfall

Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Falls of Shin is a waterfall on the River Shin, in northern Scotland, near the villages of Bonar Bridge and Lairg. Falls of Shin had a popular visitor centre, managed as part of Balnagown Estates, a company owned by former Harrods boss Mohamed Al-Fayed. Falls of Shin is situated 340 feet east of Falls of Shin Visitor Centre.

Carbisdale Castle

Castle

Photo: Malc McDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Carbisdale Castle was built in 1907 for the Duchess of Sutherland on a hill across the Kyle of Sutherland from Invershin in the Scottish Highlands. From 1945 to 2011 it was used as a youth hostel, operated by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association. Carbisdale Castle is situated 2½ miles south of Falls of Shin Visitor Centre.

Loch Laro

Lake

Photo: Graeme Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Loch Laro is a lake, which is situated 2 miles east of Falls of Shin Visitor Centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Inveran and Invershin.

Inveran

Hamlet

Inveran is a small village in the Parish of Creich located in the Sutherland region of the Highland Council area of Scotland. It is situated on the A837 at the head of the Dornoch Firth and the site of the Shin Hydro-electric Power Station.

Invershin

Village

Photo: Andrew Longton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Invershin is a scattered village in the Parish of Creich, 6 miles south of Lairg and 4 miles north of Bonar Bridge in the south of Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Invershin is situated 2½ miles south of Falls of Shin Visitor Centre.

Gruids

Hamlet

Gruids is a small remote hamlet, in the council area of Highland, Scotland. Gruids is situated 3 miles north of Falls of Shin Visitor Centre.

Falls of Shin Visitor Centre

Type: Tourism office
Address: Achany, IV27 4EE
Categories: information, building, and tourism
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.96081° or 57° 57′ 39″ north

Longitude

-4.40877° or 4° 24′ 32″ west

Levels

Open location code

9C9QXH6R+8F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 724075018

OpenStreetMap feature

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OpenStreetMap feature

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